iOS 7 Breaks Snapchat's Main Privacy Feature

You might want to be a bit more careful with what you send to
friends with iPhones over the next few months.

According to The Next Web, if they happen to
be using the beta of iOS 7, Snapchat can't detect when a
screenshot is taken (by pressing the home and power buttons at
the same time) as it can on Android or older versions of the
iPhone's software.

This is a significant problem for Snapchat because pictures sent
with the app are expected to be private. They can't be forwarded
to anyone else and they are deleted after no more than 10 seconds
of viewing.

If someone takes a screenshot of a picture you send them, you
normally get a notification letting you know it happened and you
can decide whether you want to trust them in the future. That
system of trust is (temporarily) gone from the app.

It's unclear whether or not Apple intended to remove the ability
to detect screenshots or if this is simply a bug that needs to be
fixed before iOS 7 is released later this year. Snapchat is
looking into workarounds in the meantime, like having the app
check whether a new picture has been saved to the Camera Roll to
accomplish the same thing.